Wikipedia Releases Its Most Viewed Pages Of The Year

Charlie Kirk's Wikipedia page is topping the site's most-viewed articles list for 2025. The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates the "free encyclopedia," released its list of most popular articles on the site for the 11th year and says that an estimated two-point-four-billion hours were spent reading English-language content this year. Kirk's page garnered almost 45-million views, with almost 15-million of those coming in the days after his assassination.

#2 "Deaths in 2025"

#3 Ed Gein (the serial killer they made Monster about),

#4 Donald Trump

#5 Pope Leo rounded out the top five for most-viewed articles of the year.

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost addresses the crowd on the main central loggia balcony of the St Peter's Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in The Vatican, on May 8, 2025. Robert Francis Prevost was on Thursday elected the first pope from the United States, the Vatican announced. A moderate who was close to Pope Francis and spent years as a missionary in Peru, he becomes the Catholic Church's 267th pontiff, taking the papal name Leo XIV. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP) (Photo by TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images)

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